Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I am interested in supervising PhD students who are interested in conducting Economic Theory based research. In particular, I am happy to supervise research in the following areas:

1. All aspects of Industrial Organisation Theory: in particular Platform Economics and 2-sided Markets; Economics of Privacy; R and D and Innovation; Telecommunications and Digital Economics; Contractual aspects of firms; Pricing Strategies and Discrimination; and Information Sharing.
2. The Economics of Climate Change - All issues related to Climate Change as global public goods analyzed from a Micro-Game theory perspective, especially in International Environmental Agreements.
3. Micro and Public Economics, in particular, Contract theory (especially delegation and costly verification models); Local Public Goods (especially club goods); Certain aspects of Contest Theory and their applications.